A majority Christians (especially Catholics, eastern Orthodox and mainline Protestants don't believe in the rapture, but a sizeable minority of...
What do you mean by "later"? The Gathas, the earliest Zoroastrian scriptures, are mainly poems and hyms similar to Psalms. The Avesta includes...
As mentioned, the Jews originally had no concept of hell as a place of eternal torment, although they did have Sheol, where souls of the good,...
I think of "heaven" and "Hell" as metaphors. Heaven is what would result if everyone followed the basic principles preached by Jesus and other...
So what exactly are you trying to say? You're having reservations about religious liberty because you think it makes some people violence prone?...
So how do our souls determine our sexual identity and gender??? Are you saying we're all "born that way'?
The Security Council won't do much, since the U.S. is a permanent member with a veto.
What does that mean? Do you think we're all inhabited by Casper the Friendly Ghost entities that take their flight to another realm when we die?...
Really? What scheme is that?
Dawkins is certainly entitled to his disbeliefs. But when he becomes one of the atheist Four Horsemen, he has taken a position: that there is...
Correct. That's the way I use the term, too, but without the assumption we'll understand them some day and can get on with the routines of daily...
I've read his book The God Delusion. If he "separates into two groups those who believe in an anthropomorphic god and those who don't" I must have...
Speaking of "utter nonsense":, Dawkins seems to be stuck in the Bronze Age. His generalizations about God on the basis of what "it sez" in the...
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Arabic? Hindi?
I should clarify. Their cosmos and universe were restricted to the flat earth and firmament of Genesis. And they were strict about observing their...
No, thanks. Ha-Satan is not my type. He appears in the Hebrew Bible in Job, Zechariah and Chronicles as, as you say, God's prosecutor: testing...
Checked. I remember watching Joel Osteen one afternoon when my teenage daughter walked in and asked: "Who is that baby faced shyster? " It's...
Okay, we've had our fun. But how many, if any, "people" have been prevented from saying "Merry Christmas"? And by whom? It's my understanding...
Don't believe everything you read, It hasn't been my observation that all humans want the same thing. Some want a world where a favored few get...
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